Daily Practice · GCSE Science
April 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1966State the equation linking potential difference, current and resistance.
- 2nd April 1966Define half-life.
- 3rd April 1966A resultant force of 60 N acts on a wheelbarrow of mass 15 kg. Calculate its acceleration.
- 4th April 1966State the difference between a permanent magnet and an induced magnet.
- 5th April 1966State whether a galaxy moving towards Earth would show a red-shift or a blue-shift in its light.
- 6th April 1966Define osmosis.
- 7th April 1966State one way that pathogens can be spread from person to person.
- 8th April 1966State two things excess glucose can be converted into for storage in the human body.
- 9th April 1966Define homozygous.
- 10th April 1966A gas syringe collects 48 cubic centimetres of gas in 40 seconds. Calculate the mean rate.
- 11th April 1966Why do isotopes of an element react in the same way?
- 12th April 1966Calculate the Mr of calcium carbonate, CaCO3. (Ca = 40, C = 12, O = 16)
- 13th April 1966Molten zinc chloride, ZnCl2, is electrolysed using inert electrodes. Write the half equation for the reaction at (a) the cathode, and (b) the anode.
- 14th April 1966A tangent drawn to a volume-time graph at 15 seconds passes through the points (5 s, 6 cm3) and (25 s, 66 cm3). Calculate the rate of reaction at 15 seconds.
- 15th April 1966State the reagent added, and the result, that shows a white solid contains sulfate ions.
- 16th April 1966State the two products of the complete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel.
- 17th April 1966State one way to increase the efficiency of a motor.
- 18th April 1966Why is the density of a gas much lower than that of the same substance as a liquid?
- 19th April 1966State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 20th April 1966State the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave.
- 21st April 1966Name the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun.
- 22nd April 1966Name two structures found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 23rd April 1966Why is the wall of the left ventricle thicker than that of the right ventricle?
- 24th April 1966Complete the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast: glucose -> ___ + ___
- 25th April 1966Explain why sweating cools the body down.
- 26th April 1966State one abiotic factor that can affect the population of fish living in a pond.
- 27th April 1966Give one reason distillation of seawater requires a large energy input.
- 28th April 1966What type of bonding is present in a compound formed between a metal and a non-metal?
- 29th April 1966A student reacts 2.4 g of magnesium with excess dilute hydrochloric acid: Mg + 2HCl -> MgCl2 + H2. Relative atomic mass of Mg = 24. Calculate the number of moles of hydrogen gas produced.
- 30th April 1966State the two substances that react inside a hydrogen fuel cell.